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soft rock

noun

a comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.

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First recorded in 1965–70

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It all ends with a montage set to a soft rock version of “Let My Love Open the Door.”

Somehow our clever staff located a Libyan band that specializes in 1980s soft rock,” he wrote, “so I felt very much at home.

This week, Norah Jones' soft rock edge, a Disney princess for the Obama era, and David Hockney shows his Impressionist side.

From San Pedrito the road is over a soft rock, which produces, when worn, a white glaring trail.

The whole mass is very friable, and in every direction the soft rock is hollowed out into sepulchral caves.

Others hung on a line made of rawhide and stretched across one end of the room, fastened to wooden pins driven into the soft rock.

Soft rock, like slate or shale or soft sandstone, will not answer because it is not strong enough.

For hard rock the cutting edge should be rather thicker and blunter, and therefore stronger, than for soft rock.

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